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Yupeng Kou
Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese
Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program
201G Old Botany Building
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Education:
M.A. in Asian Civilizations (2011), University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition (2016), University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Biography:
Recent Publications:
“Instructed L2 Acquisition of Different Form—Meaning Mappings of the Chinese Ba-Construction” in Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language, no. 4 (2022), 187-211.
Recent Courses:
CHNS 453: Chinese Film
Research Interests:
Instructed Chinese L2 Acquisition
Chinese L2 Testing and Assessment